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Friday, 7 December 2012

Magic Shutter Card Tutorial

At long last I have managed to complete the Magic Shutter Card Tutorial as promised, I am sorry this post so late went shopping first thing this morning and got stuck in Canterbury there was an accident on one of the approach roads to the city and the whole area became gridlocked. This style of card was designed by a very clever friend Pam Leng, she designed it for an A4 gate fold and I have adapted it for a square card, Right lets get started on this tutorial.

Mat up your backing paper onto red card as shown and adhere to inside and outside of largest piece of White card

Cut a Spellbinder Scalloped Circle from the middle of the 9.1/2cm x 14.1/2” matted card, I run mine through the Cuttle Bug and it cut through all 3 layers perfectly. Attach a strip of extra strong double sided tape to the top and bottom of the card on the wrong side as shown above.

Remove the backing from the tape at the top of the die cut piece and attach to the top of the inside centre square Do Not remove the red tape from the DST on the bottom of the card we will do that later.

Centre the sentiment under the scalloped circle and stick down, do not stick down bottom of flap yet!!!!!

Mat up the 20cm x 9.1/2 cm strip (leaving the 1.1/2cm ends clear)

Cut strip in half (as above). Mark 2” down from Top and 2” in from Edge as sown and draw a line from each corner to meet at the 2” centre, use this piece as a template for the other piece

Cut out both triangles as above.

Line up the strip so the middle of the triangle is in the middle of the scalloped circle , Adhere one side of the strip to one of the side panels of the card, as above, making sure you bring it out onto the side panel a short distance from the fold (if you adhere it on the fold line it will interfere with the mechanism and will not open properly).

Line up the remaining strip and following the above instructions adhere to the opposite side panel.

Lift up the flap and arrange the two panels as above, over lapping at the front at the top and at the back at the bottom, study the picture to see what I mean (this step is important as it is the whole basis of the Shutter Mechanism). Now you can tape down the flap to the bottom of the card.

that is just so clever.....going to give it a try....makes a stunning card....it's going to be cold and wet here tomorrow so a crafting day....weeee love it hope you have a good weekend hugs to you and mum xxxxxxx

Thank you so much Jacqui, you make it look so easy. I will give this a go and see what I come up with, it certainly won't be as good as yours but learning all the time. Love your blog, can't get enough of it. June xxx